عمارت
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عِمَارَة (ʕimāra, “building, structure”).
Noun
عمارت • (ʼimaret) (definite accusative عمارتی (ʼimareti), plural عمارتلر (ʼimaretler))
- prosperity, welfare, a state of populous and industrial well-being in a house, city, or state
- building, edifice, an enclosed structure with walls and a roof, usually standing in one place
- imaret, an Ottoman soup kitchen which gave out food that was free for poor or needy people
Derived terms
- عمارت ایتمك (ʼimaret etmek, “to repair, restore”)
- عمارتجی (ʼimaretci, “director of a imaret”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “imaret”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2159
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “imâret”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 517
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “عمارت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 859
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Xenodochium”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 1803
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “عمارت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 3325
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “imaret”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عمارت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1320
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عِمَارَة (ʕimāra).
Noun
| Dari | عمارت |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | иморат |
عمارت • ('emârat) (plural عمارتها, or عمارات)
Descendants
- → Hindustani:
- → Punjabi:
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian عمارت ('imārat), from Arabic عِمَارَة (ʕimāra).
Noun
عِمارَت • ('imārat) f (Hindi spelling इमारत)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | عمارت (’imārat) | عمارتیں (’imāratẽ) |
| oblique | عمارت (’imārat) | عمارتوں (’imāratõ) |
| vocative | عمارت (’imārat) | عمارتو (’imārato) |